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Automate It with Zapier and Generative AI - Second Edition

By : Kelly Goss
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Automate It with Zapier and Generative AI - Second Edition

By: Kelly Goss

Overview of this book

Organizations experience significant issues with productivity when dealing with manual and repetitive tasks. Automate it with Zapier and Generative AI, second edition has been extensively revised to help you analyze your processes and identify repetitive tasks that can be automated between 6000+ cloud-based business applications. This book includes all Zapier’s newest features such as AI functionality using the ChatGPT plugin, drafts, reordering and duplicating steps and paths, subfolders and version history, as well as built-in apps such as Looping, Sub-Zap, Interfaces, Tables, and Transfer. The chapters also contain examples covering various use cases sourced from the Zapier user community. You'll learn how to implement automation in your organization along with key principles and terminology, and take the first steps toward using Zapier. As you advance, you'll learn how to use Zapier’s native functionality and all 27 built-in apps such as Filter, Paths, Formatter, Digest, and Scheduler to enable you to build multi-step Zaps. You’ll also discover how to manage your Zapier account effectively, as well as how to troubleshoot technical problems with your workflows, and use the OpenAI integration to automate AI tasks. By the end of this book, you'll be able to automate your manual and repetitive tasks using Zapier.
Table of Contents (33 chapters)
1
Part 1: Getting Started with Zapier
7
Part 2: Customizing Your Zaps with Built-in Apps by Zapier – Functionality and Practical Uses
16
Part 3: Using the Features of the Formatter by Zapier Built-In App
22
Part 4: Getting the Most Out of Zapier

Formatting numbers with Formatter by Zapier

Changing the format of a number can be very useful when you want to adjust the way decimal marks, thousands separators, and spaces are displayed. In general, these situations might arise when data from one app is presented in one format, and you want to change it to be displayed in another way. Zapier has a solution to this problem. You can use the Formatter by Zapier Numbers action event with the Format Number transform option to adjust the format of numbers.

Here are a few examples of when you can use this transform option:

  • When you want to change the format of a number using a period as a decimal mark, such as 1000.00, so that it uses a comma as a decimal mark, such as 1000,00
  • When you want to change the format of a number using groupings with a comma, such as 1,000,000, so that it uses spaces, such as 1 000 000
  • When you want to change the format of a number where no thousands separators are present, such as 1000000...